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Texas AG Ken Paxton accuses Coppell ISD of violating Texas’ “critical race theory” ban

The attorney general office’s lawsuit is based on an undercover video published in February by a conservative activist group.

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Texas Senate passes hemp ban, a Dan Patrick priority

Patrick says the measure will shut down the dangerous THC products business. The House’s proposal would tighten oversight of the industry without a full ban.

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Trump administration drops challenge to Texas law targeting people who illegally cross the border

Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, will continue to be challenged by two immigrant rights groups and El Paso County.

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Amanda Edwards to run to succeed the late-U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner

Edwards unsuccessfully ran for the seat twice last year. She faced off against U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the 2024 Democratic primary. Jackson Lee won the primary but died before the general election, opening the party’s nomination anew

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Bills seek to improve state’s response to wildfires a year after devastation in Panhandle

A proposal to create a statewide system connecting emergency personnel and agencies is among several bills that target problems exposed in 2024.

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Lawmakers want to give schools more leeway to suspend Texas’ youngest and homeless students

The proposal aims to make working conditions safer for teachers but critics worry it could push the state’s most vulnerable students out of the classroom.

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Texas bill would ban K-12 students from using cell phones during school hours

If the proposal becomes law, Texas would follow in the footsteps of several Democrat- and Republican-led states that have enacted similar bans.

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University of Texas System bans drag shows in campus facilities

The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.

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TribCast: Measles, COVID and the state of our public health system

On the fifth anniversary of the start of the COVID pandemic, we discuss the measles outbreak and the state’s ability to respond to health crises.

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After COVID, Texas is less prepared for the next pandemic

Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.

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An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

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Lawmakers weigh moving bingo operations out of Texas Lottery’s purview amid agency’s uncertain future

A possible reassignment of the charitable games comes as 15 bills in the Legislature seek to either alter or abolish the troubled agency.

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Texas lawmakers seek to transfer University of Houston-Victoria to Texas A&M system

Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, said Texas A&M is better positioned to grow the Victoria school and serve the region’s petrochemical and agriculture industries.

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Texas’ first abortion arrests stem from monthlong attorney general investigation

These represent the first criminal charges under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.

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As Trump vows mass deportations, Texas lawmakers want to require sheriffs to work with ICE

Some sheriffs worried that Senate Bill 8 could create an unfunded mandate, while civil rights advocates warned about possible racial profiling.

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National Republicans target South Texas Democrats for 2026 election

Reps. Cuellar and Gonzalez are moderate Democrats who represent border districts that increasingly vote Republican.

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Texas to close border site used to process arrested migrants

The state opened the facility in Jim Hogg County in 2022.

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These are the proposals lawmakers hope will save Texas’ water supply. Track them here.

Most lawmakers — as well as Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — want to invest big in water. Here are the proposals that would do it.

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In Texas, Christian right grows confident and assertive

Emboldened by court rulings and election victories, the Christian right is outspoken as it pushes its moral views through the Texas Legislature.

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Texas school districts hopeful lawmakers will help plug $1.7 billion gap in special education funding

Proponents say the changes would better serve special education students with widely varying needs — and help schools pay for it.

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Christian Menefee, top civil attorney for Harris County government, announces bid for Sylvester Turner’s congressional seat

The district has been a Democratic stronghold, held for decades by Sheila Jackson Lee and most recently by former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who died March 5.

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Texas schools have leaned on uncertified teachers to fill vacancies. Lawmakers want to put a stop to it.

Underprepared teachers have been tied to student learning losses. But amid a teacher shortage crisis, school leaders fear the restrictions will lead to fewer instructors in their classrooms.

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Houston police directed to call ICE on undocumented immigrants with deportation orders

The new guidance comes after ICE added 700,000 individuals with deportation orders to a national crime database that law enforcement uses to track warrants.

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Texas Republicans seek to clarify when doctors can intervene under abortion bans

A Senate bill filed Friday does not expand abortion access, but aims to give doctors clarity while operating under laws that come with up to life in prison.

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Paxton says trans Texans can’t use court orders to change sex on driver’s licenses, birth certificates

Per the attorney general’s nonbinding opinion, state agencies should change gender markers on government documents back to a person’s sex assigned at birth.

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